Cleantech Finance ( www.cleantech.finance ) has a focus on insights and updates on financing/funding for cleantech and sustainability sectors.

Inputs and updates are categorized based on the type of financing (equity, debt, grant, hybrid), region (Asia, Europe, North/South America, Africa, Middle East) and the cleantech sector (Clean energy such as solar, wind power, energy efficiency, Clean resources such as water, and Clean materials such as bioplastics, organic products etc).

Cleantech Finance has following sections:

The Cleantech Detective: Billions of dollars that have gone into sustainability and climate change-related projects have become wasted because the idea was poor, it’s real-world workability was not thought through or it got basics wrong. Cleantech Detective by Clixoo, with our long experience in the cleantech sector, will help investors qualitatively figure out if a project is a poor choice from any dimension.

The Cleantech Investment Advisor: Cleantech is a challenging area. The Cleantech Investment Advisor is the first in-depth expert guide that enables investors to avoid poor investment decisions, as well as significantly enhance the likelihood of identifying exceptional cleantech investment opportunities.

CDC Group Plc, the UK government’s development finance institution, is planning to set up its own renewable energy platform focussed on east India and neighbouring countries. This dedicated platform will focus on eastern states such as Bihar, Odisha and Assam, and...

If fintech is to reach its potential to advance the global public good, another factor must be accounted for: the environment. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently published a report, “Fintech and Sustainable Development: Assessing the...

The divestment movement, which has persuaded many companies, institutions and individuals to sell their shares in fossil fuel companies, has had a major success in another business that drives climate change – the palm oil industry. Although palm oil has many...

In person, the chief executive of Arabesque Partners Omar Selim comes across as a soft-spoken man who looks like the quintessential banker in a suit. But what he is doing with Arabesque is departing convention. The asset management firm is breaking new ground in the...

In the rugged Himalayan mountains of Bhutan, farmers are busy cracking the next big opportunity – hazelnuts. Hazelnuts are endemic in Bhutan, but they have never been grown in a commercial and sustainable scale. Now, tens of thousands of local farmers are planting 10...

Last year was the “best year ever” for green finance, but 2017 will be about turning national climate goals into investment pipelines. UNEP's Nick Robins outlines three practical steps to shift private capital to where it can benefit all of us. Read more from...

Savo-Solar`s project on the development of a new type of solar thermal collector has been approved to gain financing support from Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation. The financing is a part of the Government`s spearhead projects in cleantech industry. In...

The cleantech industry will have to do better than that if it aims to replace fossil fuels. And yet, some VCs are still willing to invest in the non-selfie-driven economy. Here's some recent funding activity in cleantech. Rodgers and Doerr invest $10M in Enphase...

Jenya Khvatsky’s start-up company CleanTek Market has been founded to create a global online platform to connect clean technology projects, technologies and organisations with investors, end users and intermediaries. Here’s how he reads the imperatives for such a...

Aquafin has secured the first installment of €100m as part a new €200m loan arrangement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) for its water purification projects in Belgium. The Flemish wastewater purification company will utilize the loan proceeds to further expand...